Born 1948, have played go since 1968 when I joined the Leiden Go Club (NL) just after it started. I have been a member since that day.
I started a site with games by Cho Chikun in 1995. It got a bit out of hand later, when with more than 1370 games and 180 pages it became too complex to maintain. End 2002 I wrote a number of Python scripts that now generates the main part of the site from a database. The database now has over 1530 games and another 300 entries for games that I know that do exist but that I do not yet have.
Most of the software is shared with another project, a database for myself with translations of about 11.000 games I found on several Chinese sites. This database is usually on-line in the weekend (Friday evening to Sunday evening).
Thanks to Kombilo by Ulrich Goertz I discovered Python and started to do some programming again. One spin-off of the Chinese database project was an sgf-cleaner that can be found on my weekend site.
In september 2003 I was invited to the First Incheon Baduk World Amateur Championship as a guest official. It was my first visit to the Far East. It was an unforgetable experience.
I have a bet with Floris? that he will not be able to beat me before the end of the year 2003. I am in danger of losing that bet. -- but I won the first game in 2004 of a best of six: game 1
Jan
President of the Dutch Go Association
Hikaru no Go Fan :-)
2 dan amateur